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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Nobre, Sandra; Amado, Nelia; Carreira, Susana – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2012
In this article we report and discuss a contextual problem solving task that was proposed to a class of 8th grade (13-14-year-old) students. These students had been developing a reasonable experience in the use of the spreadsheet to model relations within contextual problems and chose to use this tool to solve the mentioned problem, engaging in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Grade 8, Algebra, Spreadsheets
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Daher, Wajeeh; Baya'a, Nimer – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2012
Learning in the cellular phone environment enables utilizing the multiple functions of the cellular phone, such as mobility, availability, interactivity, verbal and voice communication, taking pictures or recording audio and video, measuring time and transferring information. These functions together with mathematics-designated cellular phone…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts, Internet
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Glaister, P. – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2006
Pythagorean triples appear in many areas of mathematics, and they are revealed yet again as one delves into a simple geometric problem.
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction